About the Authors

Mario Juhas

mario.juhas@uzh.ch (MJ); leo.eberl@uzh.ch (LE)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Manuel Stark

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Christian von Mering

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Puthapoom Lumjiaktase

Affiliation Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Derrick W. Crook

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Miguel A. Valvano

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Leo Eberl

mario.juhas@uzh.ch (MJ); leo.eberl@uzh.ch (LE)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ CM DWC MAV LE. Performed the experiments: MJ MS PL CM. Analyzed the data: MJ MS CM PL DWC MAV LE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ MS CM PL MAV LE. Wrote the paper: MJ LE.